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Sunset Newsletter for March 12
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Sunset News
Volume 58, Issue 7 March 2012
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March 2012 Do you watch “The Balancing Act” on
Lifetime TV? It is a fabulous,
informative program for parents. On
Dish Network it is on at 5 a.m. Find out
when it is on your TV, you will want to
know.
What is that first paragraph about? Why
would I ask you to check it out? What is
going on?
Okay, here it is. Lifetime Television is
coming to Sunset Elementary School.
They will be here in March to film; the
segment will air on “The Balancing Act” in
April.
The reason? Lifetime is seeking Dream
Schools for the 21st Century and asked
Virco Furniture to provide them with
three American schools affecting
education in a positive manner. The
number one school on the list is yours
truly, Sunset.
Virco Furniture will speak to their desire
to enrich learning environments. They are
not just a furniture company, but a
company concerned about education. Our
segment will focus on healthy movement
(featuring the rocker chairs). Virco
executives touring Sunset last year
continue to tell the world about Sunset’s
culture and care for children. What an
honor this is, even if is only a short
moment in time.
Thanks to all our staff who, every day
seek to meet every student’s heart and
educational needs. Thanks to a school
district and community who support
education. Thanks to parents who
support learning and teaching at Sunset.
Thanks to the wonderful students walking
through the doors each morning.
Mrs. Farmer, Principal
Tues. March 6 & Weds.
March 7 — Parent Teacher
Conferences
Fri. March 9—No School
Mon. March 12 –Young
Authors Celebration at
CMS
Tues. March 13—PTA
meeting @ 6:30 pm
Tues. March 13—
StarGATE meeting @ 6:30
pm
Tues. March 20 —Family
Fun & Food Nite at
Wendy’s
Tues. March 2 —School
Board Meeting
Weds. March 28—
deadline for Newsletter
submissions
Thurs. March 29—
Mystery Family Reading
Night
No School
Newsletter
deadline
PT
Conference &
Staff Dinner
PTA
meeting
StarGATE
Young
Authors
Celebration
PT
Conference
Mystery
Reading
Night
Young Author Celebration
This is an invitation to all Young Authors and their parents
and relatives. There will be a district-wide celebration on
Monday, March 12 at the Cody Middle School Commons at
6:00pm. Students will get their books that evening, unless
they win at the district level. In that case their book will be going to the
state competition to be judged with others in their grade level
and genre.
The guest author for the evening will be Rahim Khan, who wrote
So You Want To Buy a Dog. Refreshments will be served after
awards.
BBHC Raptor
Assembly was very
thrilling for all our
students. Many
have also had
opportunities to
visit the museum thanks to PTA
support! See more pictures on our
Facebook page –Sunset Elementary School PTA
New Staff at Sunset
Melissa Cunningham—SPED Para-
Educator
Woody Searles—SPED Para-
Educator
Kelly Christiansen—SPED Nurse
Windy Smith - School Nurse
If you see them in the hall, please
welcome them!
Our next Parent-Teacher Association
meeting will be held on Tues. March
13th at 630 pm in the Art/Science
room.
All parents and staff
are invited and
encouraged to attend.
Sunset Elementary School PTA
Sunset School Parent-Teacher Association
President—Lisa McDonald, 250-4633
Vice President—Becca Manchester
Secretary—Bobbi Moss
Treasurer—Ashley McCarten
@SunsetPTA
Parent/Teacher Conferences will be
March 6 and 7; 3:15pm to 6:45pm. Feed
the Teacher nite will be Tuesday March
6th where PTA members and interested
parents provide dinner for the staff
that nite. A sign up sheet is on our PTA
bulletin board by the Staff Lounge or
email PTA if you can bring something.
Our Spring Book Fair will also be over
these days. The Fall book fair earned
$2500 in classroom supplies from
Scholastic.
Thank you for your support!
From the Handbook
Students need to be healthy to attend
school. Please do not send your child to
school when he/she is ill. We feel that
a child who is too ill to go outside
during recess is too ill to
be in school. Please do not
send notes to school
requesting that your child
be allowed to stay inside
for recess.
Page 4 Sunset News
Mrs. Olson
We are “MARCHing” into some new areas of
learning this month. We finished our penguin
unit with a fun celebration and are now into
standard units of measurement (inches/
centimeter/etc.). We’ll also be working with
shapes and learning what attributes they have.
We will continue to work on addition and
subtraction and move into doubles, neighbors and
strategies for addition, including using story
problems and patterns in numbers, to apply these
skills.
We will continue to study Mercer Mayer as a
mentor author, to help us in our writing. Be
watching for 2 new travel books coming home in
March. You will see the difference in our writing!
Our air and weather unit is starting. We will
study tools used by meteorologists, track
patterns and learn about clouds and air.
We are excited to tell you about our 1st Grade
Reading Challenge, starting in March. We will
need all of you to participate in keeping track of
reading minutes with your 1st grader each day, as
we add them together with other classes to meet
the Big Minutes goal. Look for more information
coming home in the Monday folders soon.
Mrs. Hill’s third grade class is moving into a
unit in geometry! This includes 2 and 3
dimensional shapes, congruency and
symmetry. Students will enjoy the discussion
and inquiry on these subjects. In writing, our
class is moving into literary essays: writing
about reading. Students will build on their
favorite "stories" by collecting possible writing
ideas and focusing on their favorite characters
from books. We will continue to give 100% and
work hard in the 3rd Trimester!
Kindergarten will continue to learn sight
words, working on learning how to retell
stories, and our reading and writing
skills. Our Parent Teacher conferences
will be March 6 and 7th, we look forward
to seeing each of you! We will visit the
museum on 3/6 & 3/7, 3/20 & 3/21. We
have been learning about our Presidents –
Washington, Lincoln, and also Buffalo Bill
Cody with all their birthday celebrations
in February! We will also celebrate Dr.
Seuss’ birthday, by
reading his stories and
d o i n g o t h e r f u n
activities. We will be
learning a lot about frogs
and toads. Have a great
month!
Cole, Barnhart & Ellsbury
February flew right by! All three classes
enjoyed their Valentine’s parties. This
month was also filled with many exciting
learning opportunities for our Sunset
Second graders. We finished up our Math
Unit on Geometry! We are working on Time,
Money, Graphing, and Calculator Skills for
the rest of the year. We work on a
different skill each day. The kids are
enjoying the variety!
We completed our 2nd trimester writing
assessments. They had to write a story
about a time that they lost a tooth. We are
proud of their effort on these!
Mrs. Cole also announced that she is
expecting a baby in early September.
Page 5 Sunset News
Miss Pinney
The month of March will focus on looking into
the lives of composers and their influence on
music. We will also continue to grow in
reading, writing, and performing music
through a variety of music activities. The
Kindergarten and 1st grade classes are now
preparing for our next musical
performance. The musical “Bugz” will be
performed on April 3rd at the High School
Wynona Thompson Auditorium at 6:30 p.m.
Remember to mark your calendar.
Fourth and Fifth Grade TOWN was on the 24th
of February. Students read books and posted
reports and blogged about them on our websites
in order to participate. Students will have the
same number of blogs and posts for the final
trimester, as well.
PAWS Testing will be in March. Fourth graders
will take the Reading, Math, and Science
tests. Fifth graders will test in Reading and
Math, and will complete the writing portion in
May. Be sure to have students well-rested, fed,
and healthy for the tests, as they are difficult
to make up.
Parent Conferences will be on March 6 & 7, and
we will be working to accommodate the many
parents who wish to meet with ALL
students. We had overwhelming response to our
questionnaire and will be meeting with as many
parents as possible during those days.
Fifth graders are finishing Thin Wood Walls, a
book about Japanese Internment, with other 5th
graders in Cody. The book discussion on March 1
will be held at the Public Library at 6:00 p.m.
Mrs. Baumstarck
Third, Fourth, and the Fifth Grades have all been
enjoying the culminating activity for the Second
Step Program. We have been playing Jeopardy. I
have used the vocabulary from the Second Step
Program to review Unit 3; which was Anger
Management.
In the Kindergarten, First Grade and Second
Grade classrooms, we have continued to learn
what is means to be a caring
person. We have watched
movies showing kind/caring
acts, listened to stories, and
colored pictures of kind and
caring people.
PAWS Testing PAWS testing March 5—30th for Grades 3—5: A
primary purpose of the Proficiency Assessments
for Wyoming Students (PAWS) is to foster
program improvement at the school, district, and
state levels in support of the teaching and
learning that takes place in Wyoming public
classrooms and meets all of the attendant
requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act of
2001.
By state law all students are required to take
the assessment. If they miss school it has to be
made up at a different time, which may pull a
child out of regular classroom instruction.
Ways parent’s can help:
Please try not to schedule appointments
during this time.
Students need a healthy breakfast so that
their minds can focus on the assessment
instead of on grumbly tummies (remember
Sunset serves breakfast, with advance
notice, for the same price as lunch).
Good sleep habits—children aged 5—12 are
recommended to get 10-11 hours of sleep a
nite.
You can contact Mrs. Skoric for more
information.
Family Food & Fun Nite #2
April Newsletter Deadline
Weds. March. 28th
Please send your
submissions to
Join us on Tues. March 20th from 5–8 pm at Wendy’s for a fun evening.
Wendy’s is donating the proceeds from the night to the PTA fund
earmarked for the new Kids Fitness Course on the
Westside of the school. Come say hi to our Sunset
Mascot, get a Tattoo and every family receives a
raffle ticket to win great prizes! Plus some of the
Staff and Student Council members will be serving
your food tonight, you won’t want to miss that! Tell
your friends and neighbors and especially Sunset
Alumni to join us!
Our Family Food and Fun Nite #1 at Arby’s was a
huge success. Mrs. Manchester says “We can’t thank
ALL of you enough for your participation tonight at
Arby’s! It was a success and we saw a huge number
of Sunset families participate. We brought in 120
orders from 5-7 alone! Thanks so much for coming
out on such a dreary, busy night and showing the
community and our kids how much WE LOVE
SUNSET!“
Our Dr. Seuss Kids Nite Out was so much
fun! Thank you to all who helped and
participated! Mrs. Farmer says, “Another
fabulous Kids Night Out!!!!! I cannot say
how much I appreciate you all, I hope you
know the great love and appreciation I
have for you all. It is so good to have
events in the school that are not school
for the kiddos to enjoy the building and
not see it as the place to HAVE to go
to. The smiles on the faces of the
children are worth a million. The laughter
and joy and the interaction between
parents, kids, and teachers is priceless.
Thanks again for caring for the wonderful
Sunset children.”
Point B 4-H Community Club is
having a meeting Monday, March
5th at 3:30 in the Barling Room
in the Lower Level of the Court
House. Everyone is welcome. It is
a General Community Club so all
projects are addressed. For more information,
contact Pepper Werner, 587-2732 or
If someone would like to organize the
Sunset Students to participate in the
parade please let the PTA know.